Moon+ Reader: How do I preserve section breaks?

[RbnJrg]

Originally Posted by Robotech_Master

I read books that have section breaks—blank lines inserted between one section and the next. But Moon+ gets rid of them, even if I leave "trim blank lines and spaces" unchecked.

Any way to fix this?

There is a way for Moon+ to observe breaks and all others styles built-in in one ebook but is well hidden. You have to do the following:

1. Load the ebook.
2. Tap in the center of your tablet screen in order that the menu appears in the bottom.
3. Tap in the Options icon (the last one on the right side).
4. Select "Miscellaneous".
5. ENABLE "Show 'Preview with publisher formatting' Button on top bar".
6. UNCHECK "Disable CSS styles".

Steps 5 and 6 are the keys in order to get what you want, but still you must do something more (and very important).

7. Go to your ebook, tap in the center of your tablet in order that Moon+ shows the top bar and TAP IN THE ICON ON THE RIGHT (is similar to the Chrome icon but monochrome).

Of that way you are enabling the "Preview with publisher formatting". If your ebook HAS the sections break, then you'll be able to see them now

Regards
Rubén

[AnemicOak]

Yes, but IIRC then you have to vertically scroll and can't use your own fonts and other settings.

[RbnJrg]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Yes, but IIRC then you have to vertically scroll and can't use your own fonts and other settings.

Yes and yes The ebook is showed according to its css stylesheet. IMHO, I think Moon+ is not a good app reader; if you want to see a good ebook layout, dropcaps, etc., etc. then you need to enable "Preview with publisher formatting" but of that way you can't use a personal font, you can't change margins, only have vertical scroll, etc., etc. I think PocketBook Reader is much better since you can retain a perfect ebook layout while you can modify fonts, margins, etc., etc.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by RbnJrg

I think PocketBook Reader is much better since you can retain a perfect ebook layout while you can modify fonts, margins, etc., etc.

Thanks, I just tried it. Not quite what I want, but not bad. I like that you can do custom colors, fonts, margins, but the line spacing sucks (for me) as "single space" looks almost double spaced (I'd like to be able to set for 1.2 or 1.3ish), you can't set paragraph spacing (not critical, but would be nice) and you can't adjust indent. I may of course be missing some settings. Didn't like at all that it started automatically scanning my device for books and if I want to remove them from the readers library it appears it deletes the book from the device. It displays very similar to Mantano at first look.

[Jabby]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

I'll have to play with this some more. I use a root app that hides soft keys and always shows a menu key when you unhide the keys. How do you get to the menu otherwise? Even when I don't hide the keys the Nexus 7 doesn't have a menu key.

If you tap the center of the screen you should see a string of icons in the upper right corner. The second from the right (gear) is the options menu. You can add an options button to the icons on the center bottom by >options >screen >button panel for those tablets/phones with a menu key.

Regards-John

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Jabby

If you tap the center of the screen you should see a string of icons in the upper right corner. The second from the right (gear) is the options menu. You can add an options button to the icons on the center bottom by >options >screen >button panel for those tablets/phones with a menu key.

Regards-John

I don't see anything in the upper right corner.

[Jabby]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

I don't see anything in the upper right corner.

What happened when tapped the center of the screen?

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Jabby

What happened when tapped the center of the screen?

This is the screenshot after tapping the center of the screen.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Jabby

What happened when tapped the center of the screen?

I just discovered that if I turn off my GMD Auto hide soft keys app and exit and re-enter the app the extra icons do show up. As a comparison I went into Google Play Books and even with GMD Auto hide soft keys on, the extra icons do appear at the top right when I tap the center of the screen. Google books screenshot :

[RbnJrg]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Thanks, I just tried it. Not quite what I want, but not bad. I like that you can do custom colors, fonts, margins, but the line spacing sucks (for me) as "single space" looks almost double spaced (I'd like to be able to set for 1.2 or 1.3ish), you can't set paragraph spacing (not critical, but would be nice) and you can't adjust indent. I may of course be missing some settings. Didn't like at all that it started automatically scanning my device for books and if I want to remove them from the readers library it appears it deletes the book from the device. It displays very similar to Mantano at first look.

I don't know what version of Pocket you tried but with the last one you CAN adjust indents, you CAN set paragraph spacing and you CAN DISABLE the automatic scanning at the beginning

In order to set indents and paragraphs spacing do the following:

1. Tap in the center of your tablet and select the "Option" icon (on the top bar, the icon on the right side).
2. Select the option "Format" and check the option "Force formatting".
3. Now select the option "Paragraph" and tap where you read "Paragraph separation". Select the option "Indent & space between".
4. After step 3 you'll see that options "Paragraph indent" and "Paragraph interval" are now available. You can set those values in em, pt, px, mm, cm, %, etc. So, you have plenty of options here.

In order to disable automatic scanning, do the following:

1. Go to the Library and tap the left icon on the top bar.
2. Select the option "Settings".
3. Uncheck the option Automatic scanning.

Give it a new oportunity to the app; you'll see is better than many others

Regards
Rubén

[AnemicOak]

thanks for the info RbnJrg. Like I said I just may not have found the settings. I did find the scan off setting, but it didn't do me a lot of good since it had already scanned part of my device. I'll definitely check out the other settings though as the app seems to do a lot of things I like.

[RbnJrg]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

thanks for the info RbnJrg. Like I said I just may not have found the settings. I did find the scan off setting, but it didn't do me a lot of good since it had already scanned part of my device...

Yes, at that time was a bit late As you found already, you can disable scanning, but is not a bad feature if you also tell Pocket WHAT FOLDER to scan. If you don't set a specific folder, then the app will scan the whole tablet (and that is not good) but if you set one folder, then the scan only will affect that place.